Reshma Jagsi, MD, DPhil, Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University researcher (IMAGE)

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Reshma Jagsi, MD, DPhil, Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University researcher

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Reshma Jagsi, MD, DPhil, of Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University, led a team of researchers that examined the portrayal of women as physicians in U.S. films from 1990-2020 and found that representation of women physicians in movies was much lower than the growing proportion of women in medicine today.

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Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University

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